IOC awards Nigeria with 2008 Olympics silver

International Olympic Committee has awarded Nigeria an Olympic silver medal from the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

The IOC said Nigeria’s silver medal was as a result of Russia being stripped of a relay gold medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, after one of its female runners tested positive for steroids in a reanalysis of her doping samples.

Sprinter Yulia Chermoshanskaya tested positive for two drugs — stanozolol and turinabol — and has been retroactively disqualified and, along with her team-mates, stripped of the gold medal in the women’s 4×100-meter relay, the International Olympic Committee said.

The three other Russians runners in the relay final were Yulia Gushchina, Alexandra Fedoriva and Evgeniya Polyakova. Under IAAF rules, an entire relay team loses its medals if one of the runners tests positive.

Belgium stands to be upgraded to the relay gold, with Nigeria moving up to silver and Brazil to bronze.

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